The ceremony was held by the towns war memorial. Attending the ceremony were relatives of Josef Stránský, Mr. K. Černý Member of Parliament, the Deputy Minister of Defence, local dignitaries, Czechoslovak RAF veteran Imrich Gablech, RAF re-enactment personnel and well wishers.

Following the ceremony there was a small exhibition of RAF memorabilia and a replica Spitfire, courtesy of the Spitfire Club. The days events concluded with a lecture by Filip Prochazka about the Czechoslovaks who served in the RAF during WW2.

The well attended ceremony was to remember the 80th anniversary of his death. On the night of 20/21 June 1944, S/Ldr Josef Stránský DFC and his Czechoslovak navigator F/O František Bouda, took-off, at 00:59 from Thorney Island airfield, in Mosquito VI FB NT182 for a night offensive on German ground targets around Mezidon, in the Normandy region of France. They did not return, reasons for the loss are unclear.

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